A100 PCIe vs Radeon Pro Vega II

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking99not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation16.38no data
Power efficiency5.89no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date3 June 2019 (5 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40966912
Core clock speed1574 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1720 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)475 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate440.3609.1
Floating-point processing power14.09 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs64160
TMUs256432
Tensor Coresno data432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceApple MPXPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthQuad-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount32 GB40 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed806 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth825.3 GB/s1,555 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.0b, 4x ThunderboltNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2019 22 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 40 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 475 Watt 250 Watt

A100 PCIe has an age advantage of 1 year, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 90% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega II and A100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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